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The stoner is generally a comical character who smokes, gets beat up, makes bad jokes, and suffers other sorts of Butt-Monkey type things, only with more drugs. The most likely character to get a Mushroom Samba bit. He is basically a cross between Butt-Monkey and the wacky guy. Usually somewhere between a technical and an Actual Pacifist, and almost always entirely non-threatening, in physical appearance. May very occasionally be prone to getting dangerous, but only rarely and under truly exceptional circumstances.

The stoner is very similar to the 19th Century "funny drunk." However, that became a Discredited Trope as groups like AA and MADD gained influence. The modern stereotype is that drunks are likely to beat you up, while stoners aren't, so stoners make better comedy. When played for drama, they are likely to be burnout losers living dead-end lives with no ambition or meaningful aspirations beyond getting high.

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Anime & Manga

Black Lagoon: Leigharch has this huge pile of used cocaine (pot in the anime) stubs. This causes him to hallucinate weird things, say weirder things, and get kicked by Revy for being high on the job. Despite this, he's an awesome getaway driver. Deconstructed when it's eventually revealed that he overdosed and got put in an insane asylum.

A popular fanon for The Netherlands and Canada in Axis Powers Hetalia, coming from their relatively liberal drug policies from Real Life. In fairness, Finland did say that the Netherlands was into some "shady drugs".

As of the 2010 Christmas event, partially confirmed in Canada's case (We know he smokes pot, but not how often).

Sabba in Dreamland, to the point he sells one arm to buy a super strong weed (sure he didn't know what that "life essence" he was asked to pay was, but he didn't really stop to think twice either). This trope is implied to be the reason he could become a Traveller without overcoming any phobia (and thus has no power of his own).

Comic Books

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, who between the three of them have at one time or another ate, drank, snorted, smoked or injected just about everything conceivable that wouldn't be instantly poisonous.

Pike from ElfQuest. A positive example: his love for the mellow world of a dreamberry haze makes him excellent at telling colorful stories, and he became the tribe's historian ("Keeper of the Howl") because of it.

Flax Seed from the Rarity issue of My Little Pony Micro Series is obviously never seen actually smoking pot (it's My Little Pony after all), but his personality fits this stereotype to a tee. Word of God on the matter is essentially "I can't say he's stoned, but he pretty much is."

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Fan Works

Absolutely everyone in Marijuana Simpson. Marge at one point gets so high she forgets Homer is her husband, not her father.

In Maim de Maim, Satsuki is literally this throughout most of the fiction until her Kamui partner told her that the very last batch she acquired and ingested was salvia, which is not terribly fun for the unprepared. Now upholding her promise to Junketsu, she has now decided to quit weed for a while; which will only, in turn, improve her already astonishing performance with Junketsu.

Subverted in Highly Questionable Decisions. While she didn't consume any drugs, Satsuki acts like one when she "turns off her brain" (at Ryuuko's advice). Naturally, those around her assumed she was on drugs.

Mr. Popo. It's how Kami keeps him even slightly under control. It's taken to exaggerated levels in the Androids/Cell saga, where Mr. Popo spends part of it tripping on a gallon of LSD. A literal gallon. Out of a milk jug. Kami doesn't even know where he got it, as he never leaves the lookout.

Kami as well, since "that shit's great for his glaucoma".

Master Roshi as well. And he does not hold back when he's toasted.

Count Dende in as well.

Popo: Worry not; all you really need is a little green. Dende: I explicitly asked you not to call me that! Popo: (holds up a blunt) I'm not! Dende: (narrows eyes and smirks) ...Yo.

Big Hero 6 has Fred, the quintessential college stoner dude. Hes got long hair, a knit cap, and necklace inspired by big stompy lizard monsters, an adorkable love of comic books and some questionable hygiene practices. It's all stoner stereotypes and while Disney hasn't specified what it is he's quitting, the matter is settled in his line just before they meet Yokai...

Fred: My name is Fred, and it's been thirty days since my last- HOLY MOTHER OF MEGAZON!!!

(Yokai starts to loom above them with millions of microbots))

Fred: Is... Is anyone else seeing this?

Films — Live-Action

Jay of The View Askewniverse is a particularly energetic variation, whereas his partner Silent Bob better fits the relaxed stoner stereotype. Both also explicitly deal pot.

Jesse and Chester from Dude, Where's My Car?. Although they talk about getting high all the time and mention having marijuana-themed aliases in one scene, neither of them are actually seen smoking in the film. In fact, the only character who does toke onscreen is a dog.

Cheech and Chong are likely the originators of this trope, seldom appearing in a film without their trademark joints, smoking it up throughout.

Fred of Galaxy Quest isn't seen actually toking up on-screen, but his extremely calm, slightly drowsy demeanor while everyone else is freaking out and his penchant for snacking are a huge tipoff to anyone paying the slightest attention. In the original cut, this was supposed to be explicit but was cut to keep the film's PG rating, but it's still pretty damn obvious.

The main trio from Game Over, Man, but especially Darren, who is seen smoking salvia more than once.

The Dude fits this trope quite well (and spectacularly), though the movie makes it clear that he is actually not as crazy and silly as basically everyone else. The Coen Brothers mention in one of the behind-the-scenes documentaries that his "liberal drug use" allowed them to insert several fantasy sequences and a Busby Berkeley Number without breaking the tone of the movie. Jeff Bridges also asked the Coens to tell him if The Dude had burned one on the way over so he could rub his eyes to achieve the appropriate level of redness.

Friday gives us Smokey, who is often seen smoking and constantly acting the fool throughout most of the film.

There is a song in the first High School Musical film that introduces the school's various cliques - nerds, jocks, etc - including one that appears to be a Disneyfied version of a group of stoners, complete with proclamations of "duuuude..."

Friend from the indie movie The Auteur. So named because he is one to all living things. Purveyor of multiple kinds of weed that mess with your head. Lives in a nudist commune. Records bird sounds.

Palmer from The Thing (1982). And to a lesser extent his roommate Childs (they were growing marijuana in the storage room)

Floyd from True Romance. It was Brad Pitt's idea to make the character a stoner. He based this character insight on the fact that the guy is always sitting around at home in the living room. Although we tropers generally aren't in the business of citations, you can hear Brad Pitt explain it in this time-stamped youtube link.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. This is the first notable instance of mainstream stoners, who are explicitly not slackers, but rather, productive members of society. (Harold is an investment banker (before the current crisis) and Kumar has untapped potential to be a doctor.)

Matthew, Harvey, and Dr. Bamford in Saving Grace to varying degrees. Matthew likes to think of himself as easygoing (although he can be high strung), Harvey tries to be an Erudite Stoner but ends up more of a Conspiracy Theorist. Dr. Bamford is a slacker prone to crashing on couches but seems to be a surprisingly competent doctor. It's implied there isn't much for anyone under 50 in the town to do except get stoned and hang out at the pub.

The Cabin in the Woods has an initially straight example in Marty - with the variation that his drug use actually helped immunize him against some of the chemicals released in the cabin, and his paranoia was thoroughly accurate. He actually proves to be fairly smart.

While almost everyone else in Neighbors is also this Mac fits the image best, bringing over weed to the frat house a peace offering, getting stoned while at work and realising Teddy's combination lock number could only be 420.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Haroun's father is tired of him lying around all day smoking hashish, so he pays Sinbad gold and a slavegirl to take the boy away.

In American Ultra, Mike Howell is just your typical small-town, loser, stoner. Dead-end job, doodling his daydreams and ideas in a journal, local sheriff harassing him about all the petty arrests for minor trouble he's been picked up on and the "too good for him" girlfriend that babysits him. The only thing differentiating Mike from most of the other people on this page is that besides enjoying getting high, he used to be in a secret CIA program that trained him to be an unstoppable super-badass. He just doesn't remember any of that.

Also Lacey Underall likes to go to bullfights on acid. She's sitting at a table at the yacht club table with Spaudling Smails and the other assembled young people who are smoking marijuana and presumably, she's smoking with them. When she goes to pick up Danny and take him to bed, she gets annoyed when she walks up to him with Terry the Hippie and finds out that he doesn't have that much weed when they walk up to Danny:

Drazic, in The Mansion, arrives with a suitcase full of various botanical drugs and he's seldom seen in the film not lighting up. His role takes plot significance when first Charlotte undergoes a Mushroom Samba courtesy of his "mushroom cupcakes" and later when the villain is taken out by his "Tibetan frog".

Troy in Shrooms, who is on the mushrooming trip for the sole purpose of getting high. He smokes a bong on the way from the airport to the forest. He also looks quite a lot like Jay from The View Askewniverse.

Literature

Discworld's parody of the Hashishin in Sourcery, renowned for being deadly and, at the same time, inclined to giggle, groove to interesting patterns of light on their daggers, and fall over.

Chris Lang in Tomorrow: When the War Began. He's shown to be a weird genius with more of a drinking problem than anything else, in the film he wears a dressing gown, is prone to weird, like, weird, stoner-talk and smokes on screen.

A female version exists and is played around with in Metal Star Prophecies: The Green Owl. Matsuda Tsuroba likes getting high, but sometimes it's because she's with her boyfriend, and sometimes she does it as a means to alleviate her stress and worries about graduation from high school. She's also more approachable when stoned; sober Matsuda's a little more apprehensive and realistic.

Inherent Vice has Doc lighting up on a regular basis, as do his friends and neighbours. Even his parents.

In John Moore blends this with Junkie Prophet in his Fractured Fairy Tale, Bad Prince Charlie. The oracle that Charlie goes to see for advice with his troubles turns out to be a very young, very naked, and very stoned girl, who is prone to saying "wow" a lot, and constantly has the munchies. Very loosely inspired by some historians' notions of the Oracle at Delphi in Ancient Greece.

Polocks: You see, she's called the High Priestess because...

Charlie: I get it! I get it, ok? Don't run it into the ground. Dammit, Pollocks, you brought me all the way up here to meet a stoner?

Dead End Job Mysteries: During the first two books, one of Helen's neighbors at the apartment complex is Phil, a man she's never seen except for a perpetual cloud of weed smoke coming out of his apartment (and a brief glimpse of his "Clapton is God" t-shirt when he pulled her out of her burning apartment in book 1), to the point where she's nicknamed him "Phil the invisible pothead". In book 2, she also finds drug paraphernalia in his apartment when she and an exterminator go in to make sure everything's been removed before the apartments are gassed for termites. Then Book 3 subverts it in a big way when Helen finally meets him in person and finds out that the stoner persona is all an act - he's really a private investigator and consultant with the government, and is working undercover in order to solve a major money laundering case (which she winds up helping him with).

Live-Action TV

The Electric Mayhem from The Muppets. In the 2015 series, Kermit notes that they're "Always happy. Legally, now."

Jesse from Breaking Bad started out like this. His stoner nature made him initially almost completely useless, except for his ability to befriend other drug users who help to deal his product. However, all the bad stuff he witnessed and participated in caused him to become a much more serious person. In later seasons when he goes Off the Wagon he uses harder drugs like heroin and there is nothing funny about it anymore.

A good chunk of the characters on Mom smoke weed. While the show doesn't take much a moral stance for or against it, it does highlight the stupid and/or dangerous things people can do while high and how such behavior can anger/annoy those who don't partake.

Luke smokes, although it's implied that it's as much recreational as it is to try and cope with his overbearing father. It's also shown that being perpetually high doesn't do him any favors. With or without the pot, however, he is a good-natured, but extremely dim, goof.

Baxter sees being high as a good thing, even when it comes to issues of personal safety.

Baxter: "Never fall sober! You tense up!

Christy: "Thanks for the tip.

Baxter: "It's a scientific fact: you can't get hurt when you're high. I don't make the rules!"

Marijuana is probably the least of Chef Rudy's vices, as the show reveals that he takes and deals in a wide variety of substances and sexual fetishes. The substance abuse element of Rudy's character is Truth in Television for many people trying to cope in the incredibly stressful food industry.

Samantha on Sex and the City is often shown smoking a joint. The other girls happily smoke pot too.

On How I Met Your Mother, Ted, Marshall, and Lily were this when they were in college. They grew out of it, but occasionally slip back into it for old times sake (although by the year 2020, they complain that they can't handle more than one joint anymore). However, since Future!Ted is telling the story to his kids, he replaces all mentions of smoking pot with "eating a sandwich", with a corresponding visual euphemism.

On My Name Is Earl, Earl and Randy once robbed a stoner of all his possessions, so he's on The List. They track him down only to discover that he gave up drugs and is now living off the grid on a hippie commune. To make up for what they did, Earl and Randy agree to live on the commune for a week and try to green up their lifestyles and educate people about global warming. Earl has a breakdown, while Randy trips out on a salve given to him, and the ex-stoner guy gave Earl some much-needed advice about not taking on more than he can handle and not having to be perfect.

'Stoner' (no other name given) in The X-Files episodes 'War of the Coprophages' and 'Quagmire' (season 3, episodes 12,22). Although he does not get beaten up, both times he and his girlfriend ('Chick' or 'Redheaded Chick') watch as a third member of the group dies as a result of whatever drug Stoner is enjoying.

On Parks and Recreation, the Pawnee Animal Control department is run by 2 stoners who eventually get fired. There's also the former head of the Parks Department who grows pot in some public park flowerbeds.

On Schitt's Creek multiple characters smoke weed, with Mutt being the most stereotypical stoner character. Stevie and David smoke together more than once, including the time that led to their first hookup. Even the older generation gets high at the Schitts' luau.

The Outer Limits (1995): In "Abaddon", Curtis Sandoval, the medical officer of the interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod, is a major stoner who uses drugs to escape reality as he hates his life and his job. He likes to call himself "Dr. Feelgood."

Taken: In "Acid Tests", the archaeology student Daryl seems to be perpetually high, taking it in his stride when he falls into a burial chamber. He is later seen smoking a joint while trying on a Tsimtshian mask.

Dr. Dre's music had weed as a common theme. However, some have pointed out that there's no actual proof that he really smokes weed, leading to the theory that it's just an act to boost sales.

Pretty much everyone in OF is known to enjoy marijuana, with the exception of Straight Edge Tyler.

Willie Nelson, in keeping with his "outlaw country" image, is a major activist for marijuana rights, and has even done a bit of jail time for weed-related offenses. Now that it's becoming more legalized in the USA, he's announced plans to launch his own self-branded line of cannabis products.

Danny "Sexbang" Avidan of Ninja Sex Party has admitted to being one in his twenties, describing one particular incident of him spending three straight days sitting on a couch doing nothing but eating pot brownies. He eventually quit and since a stomach illness prevents him from drinking alcohol (not that he had much of a taste for it to begin with), his only vice nowadays is Skittles.

The Black Crowes are famed for appearing on the cover of High Times Magazine. Chris Robinson is an avowed stoner.

Billy Joel wrote what may be the most accurate Deconstruction of the character type in "Captain Jack". In the words of the man himself:

What's so terrible about a college teen's life that he has to shoot heroin? People say the song promotes drugs and masturbation, I say no. This guy's a loser.

Deconstructed also in Afroman's "Because I got high". A very happy sounding song about a man whose drug use ruins his entire life. He loses his job, his kids, wife and ends up homeless... because he got high.

I like smokin' pot a lot I like gettin' stoned alone I like vapin' weed indeed I think edibles are incredible I sure love them gummy bears Hemp shampoo for my curly hairs Rubbin' cannabis lotion on my cock I like smokin' pot... a lot

How about The Brian Kendrick? He walked to the ring like a stoner before anyone even knew he really was one. In fact, most of the reason why his push was dropped so quickly and he was fired was that he repeatedly failed the marijuana portion of the wellness test. Hence, why TNA took him in and did pretty much nothing with him.

New York/New Jersey indy wrestler the Grim Reefer.

WWE's the Godfather, a wrestling pimp, would always end his prematch spiel by saying, "I want ya' to roll a fatty for this pimp daddy, light that blunt/stinky green/hydro up and say 'PIMPING AIN'T EASY!'".

Jack Swagger. Though he doesn't act like it, it's a very well-known fact that the reason Swagger has been stuck in mid card hell for so long is that he can't stay away from the cannabis plant (well, that and behavioral issues in general). It came to bite him in the ass big time when, in the middle of the biggest push of his career, he got arrested for marijuana possession. He was back in the midcard and it's unlikely he'll ever leave it again.

Matt Riddle, who was kicked out of UFC and had a couple of wins overturned due to his love for the herb (but mostly due to personal conflicts with Dana White). He primarily uses it to alleviate the pain from his injuries and claims it's better to smoke a joint than go hard on alcohol or painkillers. His preference for weed has also been incorporated into his gimmick, "The King of Bros", a mellow stoner who becomes a beast in the ring.

Stand-up Comedy

Dana DeLorenzo (a.k.a. Beth the Censor from "The Late Late Show") gives this trope a feminine spin. It's never stated flat-out, but her character's...unique perspective on things, the random yoga routine, and her enjoyment of peanut butter straight from the jar are a little suspicious.

Video Games

The Reality-On-The-Norm series has Melt and Drake, a pair of friends who live in a dilapidated apartment and spend most of their time doing drugs. There's also Doc, a drug-addicted hyperactive journalist who is a parody of Hunter S. Thompson.

In Assassin's Creed: Initiates, Assassin hacker Emmett smokes recreational marijuana, which distracts him enough that the Initiates spy aboard the Altair II is able to hack into Emmett's computer system and upload reports to the website.

In Pillars of Eternity, Zahua; as part of his order's Warrior Monk training, he routinely does a cocktail of mood-altering drugs and hallucinogens. He spends most of the adventure completely stoned and/or tripping, occasionally making non-sequitur comments about whatever he's hallucinating at the time. To a much lesser extent, banter involving Zahua, Hiravias, and Edér suggest all three are casual users of the marijuana-like whiteleaf plant.

Emily Kaldwin, the canon protagonist of Dishonored 2, is revealed to be one in her letters from her lover Wyman. Said lover introduced her to the illegal white leaf tobacco, which is read next to a hookah and upon inspection, she'll remark she had "good times" with Wyman and her friends in the past. A rare case where she isn't portrayed with all the negative and stereotypical traits associated with it.

Web Comics

Knuckles and Cheeto Man in Tails Gets Trolled. Knuckles once blunders into a camp of trolls while already high and proceeds to smoke even more with them. Cheeto Man hotboxes while training Tails. And he's Knuckles' dealer.

According to Word of God, Meulin gets stoned on catnip, and her happy-go-lucky but lazy personality is a reference to this trope. She gets stoned with her friend Kurloz, but like Gamzee he only superficially fits the archetype (although, since the audience should be expecting this, it isn't a subversion or a twist in any way).

Damara is seen smoking a joint in a lot of her animations and tells Meenah to "Chill the fuck out. Let's touch each other. Please get stoned with me." However, in her case, it's just a cover for her bitterness and foul personality.

The Bird Feeder has Exotic, an exotic bird with strange tales of its faraway homeland, Combrobway. It even has its own special birdseed which "does strange things to you," as shown in #33, "Apologies and new exotic seeds."

Az, Ragz, and G-man in Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell are three shaggy-haired, tie-dyed angels who do nothing all day long but smoke pot, watch TV and eat Cheetos, which they do on Darwin's couch while mooching off his hospitality. They speak in a drawl peppered with "man"s and their names are even stonerfied versions of classic angel names (Azrael, Rafael, Gabriel). One arc reveals that they once had a mission on earth, but they got too into drugs after arriving in the '60s and completely forgot about it.

Web Original

Jim Anchower of The Onion. He's a lazy slacker who can't hold down a job for too long, and his lazy ways, love of pot, and perpetually-broken car ensure he never achieves anything he sets out to do. His columns derive humor from Jim's haplessness and meandering narration.

The stoner clique at Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe is called the Dylans. As in 'everybody must get stoned'.

Sassy the Sasquatch and the other sasquatches of The Big Lez Show. There is no point in the series where they don't have drugs. Justified in that drugs are good for them.

Mario and Luigi in the mashed toon, Luigis Nightmare. The whole Mushroom Kingdom and their good looks is nothing more than them high on drugs. In actuality, they are two ugly old stoned men in Vice City. Peach may be this as well.

SCP FoundationSCP-1481 is a perpetually stoned genie whose "magic lamp" is a plastic coffee cup. Due to his drug-addled state, he's hopelessly inept at granting wishes, usually just conjuring up food to sate his munchies instead, and desperately asking for drugs. He's so out of it that it never crosses his mind that he can just conjure up drugs for himself as he does with the food, and when someone points it out, he suffers a Heroic BSoD. In a rare moment of lucidity, he reveals that all he wants to do is grant wishes and make people happy, but some utter bastard used his first wish to turn him into the train wreck that he is, used his second wish to make his first wish irreversible, and then just walked away, all purely For the Evulz.

Otto, the school bus driver. In "The Seven-Beer Snitch", Otto's urine sample contains so many illegal drugs that when Otto looks at it, it resembles a scene from The Beatles film Yellow Submarine. And only actually contains "trace amounts of human urine". In the Movie, it's implied that Otto spent almost the entire movie stoned out of his head and didn't notice a thing that was going on.

Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. Okay, so it was never canonized, but in every conceivable way, he is your typical stoner hippy. He's stick-thin, scruffy, always hungry, will eat dog snacks, and he's always freaking out.

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law plays with the common Fanon that Shag and Scoob from Scooby-Doo are stoners when the two are arrested and put on trial for possession. In the end, it turns out they weren't high at all — they're just stupid.

Manic from Sonic Underground talks and generally acts stoned most of the time, and he's a thieving pickpocket from the lowest classes — a background prone to stumbling into drug habits. It wasn't canonized but it's an opinion shared by many fans and critics of the show alike.

Dave from Code Monkeys is a huge one- he's been known to have a massive bong he dubbed "Wrath of Bong", and is the source of drug-related things at Gameavision.

Looney Tunes: Speedy Gonzalez's cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez has all the characteristics of a typical stoner. He's always hungry and he moves slowly. Slowpoke also has slurred speech and droopy eyes.

BoJack Horseman has several characters who do drugs, but Todd fits the trope description as the friendly slacker who usually avoids the show's more serious drama.

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